duress > define
noun
- Compulsory force or threat.
- usage: "confessed under duress"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To subject to duress.
- (n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
- (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
DURESS is a state in which the improper, threatening or coercive actions of another place a person in a disadvantage psychological position. A person is not bound by a contract she enters while under duress.